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Summer School Theme: A Sustainable Future for the Built Environment

Speakers

Prof. Tony Thorpe

Tony is Emeritus Professor of Construction IT at Loughborough University. He trained as a civil engineer and has over 40 years of experience in engineering research and practice. His research interests are broad, addressing many areas of construction management/ construction IT ( now commonly referred to as “digital construction”). Much of his early research was on developing applications for contractors’ management functions: estimating; planning; and cost control. This evolved into developing solutions for site-based data capture – using bar coding, RFID tags, and wearable computers – and the data standards that support them. He was also an early pioneer and advocate for the emerging concrete-printing technologies

Prof Rafael Sacks

Rafael Sacks is Professor of Civil Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. His research focuses on Building Information Modeling (BIM), Lean Construction and the synergies between them. He is director of the National Building Research Institute at the Technion and heads the Virtual Construction Laboratory. Research projects in the VC Lab include development of BIM-enabled lean production control systems, BIM technology and Digital Twin Construction (see CBIM and BIM2TWIN). He has authored 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals, 125 conference papers, and numerous book chapters. He is the lead author of the “BIM Handbook“, currently in its 3rd edition, and of the book “Building Lean, Building BIM: Changing Construction the Tidhar Way“.

 

Stefan Mordue

Stefan is the Senior Program Manager for Education and Partnerships at Bentley Systems, where he collaborates with universities, colleges, and schools globally to drive educational innovation through the integration and application of Digital Twin technology. He is a chartered Architect, a qualified Construction Project Manager, and published author. Stefan was a founding member of the CIC BIM 2050 group and participates in several industry and technical standards committees, including the Architects Council of Europe (ACE) BIM Working Group and the CIOB Digital & Innovation Advisory Panel. Stefan has co-authored several books on BIM and has received awards from CIOB, Leeds Beckett University, Generation for Change, Constructing Excellence, and Digital Construction Live in recognition of his contributions to the construction industry.

Prof. Baihua Li


Prof. Baihua Li, a Professor in AI, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of the British Machine Vision Association. Her research spans AI theory and its wide applications in human motion analysis, industrial automation, healthcare, agriculture, sports science, and net-zero. Her research has been widely reported by media, including New Scientist, AI Business, Engineering & Technology, Interesting Engineering, etc.

In her upcoming talk, she will cover cutting-edge deep learning technologies in computer vision. Participants will gain valuable insights through live demonstrations and real-world examples from both industry and research projects, providing a unique opportunity to explore advanced computer vision systems, current trends in research and industry, as well as practical skills required for AI/CV researchers and engineers.

 

Pedro Mêda


Pedro Mêda, MSc in Civil Engineering, UP. For the last 20 years has been working in the construction management domain at University of Porto – Faculty of Engineering, where is an Invited Assistant Professor, and at ICS – Instituto para a Construção Sustentável, participating in consultancy services, public works audits, national and international projects, as well as training actions. He took part in the commission for the definition of the new Lisbon airport – railway accessibilities, and several projects aligned with the EU Twin Transition goals, namely on Ecodesing and CPR Digital Product Passports (DPP) and Digital Building Logbooks (DBL).

He is a member of several commissions and committees related to the construction industry, namely the ISO/TC 59 SC 13, EC3 Modelling & Standards, Scientific Committee of several conferences and Editorial panel member of the ICE Journal – Management Procurement and Law.

Prof Jennifer Schooling

Jennifer Schooling is Professor of Digital Innovation and Smart Places at Anglia Ruskin University. She has had a varied career working in industry and academia. Her current research explores the sociotechnical aspects of digitalisation at the city scale, focussing on governance and ethical innovation to enable delivery of digital solutions for public value creation. She is a co-director of the DARe Research Hub for Decarbonised, Adaptable, climate Resilient transport for a sustainable future. She also carries out research on decarbonisation of construction through data.
Previously the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, Jennifer was lead author of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment. She sits on the Infrastructure Client Group’s Digital Transformation Task Group, and the Institution of Civil Engineers Decarbonisation Community Advisory Board. Jennifer is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. André Borrmann

André Borrmann is Full Professor for Computational Modeling and Simulation at the Technical University of Munich. His fields of interest span from Building Information Modeling to Artificial Intelligence in Construction, and include such diverse topics as knowledge-based model synthesis, computer vision and pedestrian dynamics. He received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2003 and his doctorate in the field of Construction informatics from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 2007. Since 2011, he has been heading the Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation at TUM and has been the spokesperson of the Leonhard Obermeyer Center of Digital Methods for the Built Environment since 2013. Prof. Borrmann is the coauthor of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and has received several international awards for his research work, including the Konrad Zuse Medal in 2024.

Mirosław J. Skibniewski


Mirosław J. Skibniewski holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is currently the Professor of Construction Engineering and Project Management at the University of Maryland in College Park, USA. Prior to 2006, he was a Professor and Associate Provost at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. During 2010-2011 he was asked to serve as the Founding Dean of the College of Engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Prof. Skibniewski has served for over three decades as the Editor-in-Chief of Automation in Construction, the world’s top-ranking Civil Engineering scholarly journal published by Elsevier. He is currently the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of Engineering Management, a scholarly journal published by Springer, and a member of editorial boards of over 20 other research journals in the field of Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering and Management.

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